This is an analysis of the poem Johnson, Alias Crow that begins with:
Where the seasons are divided and the bush begins to change,
and the links are rather broken in the Great Dividing Range; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdccXXccXXccdbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010101 101110100010101 101010101010101 101010101010001 101000111010101 1010001011101001 111011101010111 101000110010101 111000100010101 1110101010101001 111011100010101 111111000010001 11110100011101 1011111010101001 11111011011110 101010100010001 100010111011101 1110111010101001 101001111111101101011101110101 111010101010101 101011101110100 111011101110111 1010101010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1472
- Average number of words per stanza: 269
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, johnson, him are repeated.
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